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Bug 157470 - Attempting to associate an application with "Open With" errors everytime.
Attempting to associate an application with "Open With" errors everytime.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-11-05 19:45 UTC by Jon
Modified: 2005-09-18 14:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Jon 2004-11-05 19:45:09 UTC 
Attempt to open any file without an associated application -OR- right click and
choose "Open With".

When the dialog opens with the input box for the application to use, fill it out
and click "OK".

Nautilus shows an error dialog "Cannot add application to application database".

To rule out a permissions error, I executed: chmod -R 777 .gnome

The effect of this is that you cannot open anything through Nautilus since after
dismissing the error message you are returned to the "Open With" box (ie: you
can't open the file with the application you entered).
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2005-02-03 15:00:58 UTC 
does it happen on any file or is that dependant of the filename ?
Comment 2 Thomas Müller 2005-04-05 20:47:13 UTC 
If the file doesn't have an extension (like the default filename here: "neue
Datei") I always get back to the "Open With" dialog as described above.

With a file extension the file opens normally in the default application or, if
no application is assigned to this file type, I can choose an application.

So this seems to only affect files without extensions.

(tested with Debian Sid, Nautilus 2.8.2)
Comment 3 Christian Neumair 2005-08-21 07:49:28 UTC 
Do you still see this with Nautilus 2.11?
Comment 4 Christian Neumair 2005-09-18 14:41:20 UTC 
I can't reproduce it, and there was no response. Marking FIXED.